Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In pathology, pertaining to or of the nature of a bubo.
  • Accompanied by the formation of bubos; affected with bubos.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to buboes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or evidencing buboes

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Examples

  • Most often, when it enters your body, you develop what's either called bubonic plague, as you've shown pictures of where it develops into the lymph nodes and then sometimes gets into the bloodstream.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2003 2003

  • That's what they called bubonic plague in San Francisco and yellow fever in Texas in the old days of concealment. "

    The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • I have read an account of people going crazy, in these outbreaks of so called bubonic plagues.

    Dr. Doom Sean 2006

  • In Cape Town there are two topics -- the town guard and the plague, known as bubonic; owing to the latter, great is the stink of disinfectants.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • The most common type is that known as the bubonic plague which is characterized by buboes or swellings in various parts of the body.

    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

  • The disease in man appears in two forms, the most common known as bubonic plague, from the great enlargement of the lymph nodes, those of the groin being most frequently affected.

    Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

  • Human history has been subjected to and shaped by major epidemics, such as bubonic plague, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox, measles and influenza.

    The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Presentation Speech 2008

  • (PLAYG) A highly contagious disease, such as bubonic plague, that spreads quickly throughout a population and causes widespread sickness and death.

    plague 2002

  • Due in part to improvements in health care and to the progressive conquest by medical science of illnesses such as bubonic plague, yellow fever and yaws, Africa's population grew by almost 40% between 1900 and 1960.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Due in part to improvements in health care and to the progressive conquest by medical science of illnesses such as bubonic plague, yellow fever and yaws, Africa's population grew by almost 40% between 1900 and 1960.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

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